A cyberspace guide to Drosophila development and metazoan evolution

Gene Index Alphabetical: Genes A - D     Genes E - K         Genes L - R             Genes S - Z Genes grouped according to biochemical function (examples: transcription factors, ligands and receptors, etc.) Biochemical pathways: Maternal genes Zygotically transcribed genes Study Aids Developmental pathways conserved in evolution All I Really Needed to Know I Learned During Gastrulation, by Scott Gilbert. Concepts in developmental biology. Quirks of Human Anatomy, by Lewis Held Jr. How genetic circuitry has facilitated or frustrated anatomical evolution. Drosophila Images BrainGenes Other on-line resources Databases: Download the Interactive Fly

Tissue and Organ Development Embryonic Stages of development Atlas of Drosophila Development by Volker Hartenstein Gastrulation and other morphogenetic movements Histogenesis: index of genes active in the formation of various germ layers and tissues (including ectoderm, endoderm and mesoderm) Morphogenesis and organogenesis: index of genes active in the formation of various organs (including eyes, gut, heart, nervous system, and wing) Expression patterns: 1, 2, 3, 4 5, and 6 Larval development Imaginal Discs and Tissues Imaginal Discs: The Genetic and Cellular Logic of Pattern Formation, by Lewis Held Jr. Adult Formation of the adult fly (morphogenesis and organogenesis) Oogenesis and Spermatogenesis Behavioral paradigms

What's new this edition The Interactive Fly [edition 63] Meet The Interactive Fly If you are new to developmental biology If you are already involved in developmental biology Interactive Fly: Citations and awards above: images of male and female Drosophila melanogaster from THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF HEREDITY Thomas Hunt Morgan Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company 1919 The Interactive Fly © 2012 Thomas B. Brody, Ph.D. Please e-mail comments/corrections to brodyt@ninds.nih.gov

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